Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2008.05.001
Accession#:
2008.05
Credit Line:
Purchase of this artwork has been made possible through the generous support of the Rasmuson Foundation.
Object Name:
Sculpture
Title:
Diving Raven
Artist — Creator:
Beasley, Rick
Date:
2006
Description:
Sculpture, Wood Carving.
Diving Raven is a trail marker or mini—totem made of spruce wood, with green abalone, operculum, and human hair inlaid into the wood.
At the top of the sculpture is a face. Below this is an oval and below that is a depiction of a raven with human hair used as eyebrows. Below the raven is another face that has teeth made of abalone.
There is cracking in the wood and one of the eyes is cracked.
Diving Raven is a trail marker or mini—totem made of spruce wood, with green abalone, operculum, and human hair inlaid into the wood.
At the top of the sculpture is a face. Below this is an oval and below that is a depiction of a raven with human hair used as eyebrows. Below the raven is another face that has teeth made of abalone.
There is cracking in the wood and one of the eyes is cracked.
Notes:
This composition depicts Raven diving down into the water after sea urchins. Raven must pull himself down into the kelp. The large face at the bottom represents a rock that the kelp attaches itself to. The image is surrounded by bark.
Trail markers were used to establish clan property boundaries and identify meeting places along trails.
Trail markers were used to establish clan property boundaries and identify meeting places along trails.
People:
Beasley, Rick
Search Terms:
AJ
Bird
Ethnographic
Hiking
Mythology
Native
Sculpture
Tlingit
Totem Pole
Bird
Ethnographic
Hiking
Mythology
Native
Sculpture
Tlingit
Totem Pole
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